Natural language processing

News and Updates

Working With Workspace Words: NIST Helps Compose Technical Language Processing Tutorial at PHM 23

December 1, 2023

NIST helped to foster awareness, debate, and education at the Technical Language Processing (TLP) Tutorial of the 15 th Annual Conference of the Prognostics and

NIST Tools for Searching the Coronavirus Dataset

New resources developed by a multidisciplinary team of experts in natural language processing and data curation and discovery allow researchers to get the most

Events

2024 Artificial Intelligence for Materials Science (AIMS) Workshop

Wed, Jul 17 - Thu, Jul 18 2024

As a part of the JARVIS workshop series, NIST is sponsoring the 5th Artificial Intelligence for Materials Science (AIMS)

Projects and Programs

A natural language processing approach to information indexing and searching

A novel root and rule-based natural language processing (NLP) approach to information indexing and searching

Ongoing

Publications

Human-in-the-loop Technical Document Annotation: Developing and Validating a System to Provide Machine-Assistance for Domain-Specific Text Analysis

May 14, 2024

Author(s)

Juan Fung, Zongxia Li, Daniel Stephens, Andrew Mao, Pranav Goel, Emily Walpole, Alden A. Dima, Jordan Boyd-Graber

In this report, we address the following question: to what extent can machine learning assist a human with traditional text analysis, such as content analysis

KPI Extraction from Maintenance Work Orders—A Comparison of Expert Labeling, Text Classification and AI-Assisted Tagging for Computing Failure Rates of Wind Turbines

December 6, 2023

Author(s)

Marc-Alexander Lutz, Bastian Schäfermeier, Rachael Sexton, Michael Sharp, Alden A. Dima, Stefan Faulstich, Jagan Mohini Aluri

Maintenance work orders are commonly used to document information about wind turbine operation and maintenance. This includes details about proactive and

META LEARNING WITH LANGUAGE MODELS: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN THE CLASSIFICATION OF IMBALANCED TEXT

October 23, 2023

Author(s)

Apostol Vassilev, Honglan Jin, Munawar Hasan

Detecting out of policy speech (OOPS) content is important but difficult. While machine learning is a powerful tool to tackle this challenging task, it is hard

The BETTER Cross-Language Information Retrieval Datasets

July 27, 2023

Author(s)

Ian Soboroff

The IARPA BETTER (Better Extraction from Text Through Enhanced Retrieval) program held three evaluations of information retrieval (IR) and information

Software

Nestor

May 23, 2019

The Nestor Graphical User Interface (GUI) is a free toolkit that helps maintainers annotate their Maintenance Work Order (MWO) data through a process called